Iowa Brewers Guild

Greetings and welcome to the introduction of the Iowa Brewers Guild’s public website.

The Iowa Brewers Guild was formed a little more than two years ago with one general goal in mind – to showcase and improve craft beer made in Iowa (you can see the actual mission statement here). In these two years, we have made some great progress in bringing the state’s brewers together and pooling our resources and skills to accomplish this goal. We have shared brewing tips, offered ingredients in trade when fellow brewers have needed them, sent beer representing the entire state’s breweries to festivals, and at the end of this week will offer our first simultaneous event with every brewery in the state offering an open house and brewery tours to celebrate American Craft Beer Week. Behind the scenes, the Iowa Brewers Guild is making great strides in helping bring better, locally made, beer to you – the beer drinking public.

With the launch of www.iowabeer.org we now accomplish another important goal – inviting the public to help us with our goal. While we will be continually updating and improving the website’s information, we also have a goal of making www.iowabeer.org one of the most socially interactive beer websites on the web. We have embraced Twitter, Facebook, and the forums found right here on our website to give each of you a voice in recognizing and developing world class beer in Iowa.

Once again, welcome to the official launch of the Iowa Brewers Guild website. Please search around, find information about your favorite local breweries and beers, check out our calendar of events, and most importantly let us know how we can make this a one-stop location for everything about Iowa Beer.

Celebrating American Craft Beer Week, I raise a toast to you and to Iowa Beer. Prost!

- Dave Coy, President Iowa Brewers Guild

Tags: American Craft Beer Week, site launch

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